Computer literacy: today and tomorrow

  • Authors:

  • Mark Hoffman;Jonathan Blake

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science and Interactive Digital Design, CL-AC1, Quinnipiac University, 275 Mt. Carmel Avenue, Hamden, CT;Department of Computer Science and Interactive Digital Design, CL-AC1, Quinnipiac University, 275 Mt. Carmel Avenue, Hamden, CT

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Computing and technology departments often offer service courses in Computer Literacy that provide the entire academic community with the opportunity to develop skills in the use of computers. These courses have been around for many years, but all too often they have not been updated to reflect new skills and knowledge that students are now bringing with them. In this paper we chronicle the history of teaching Computer Literacy, and discuss its relationship with the broad topic of Information Literacy. We include the description of a course on the Internet taught at Quinnipiac University that serves as a model for an updated Technology Literacy course incorporating both Computer Literacy and Information Literacy.